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| Office 2013 pricing revealed |
| By Thom Holwerda on 2012-09-17 23:05:10 |
| Microsoft Office 2013 has received its pricetags. Home and Student - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote - is $140, while Home and Business, which adds Outlook into the mix, is $220. Professional jumps to a whopping $400, but adds Access and Publisher. For $100 per year, you can get the subscription version, which can be installed on up to 5 PCs (both Windows and OS X PCs). In related news, Microsoft still thinks it's 2001. |
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| RE: $0 for students and staff |
| By orfanum on 2012-09-18 14:28:03 |
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Well...It's true they are cheaper and I probably would not pay full whack for a non-education copy but I have switched back to Office just recently exactly in order to be productive after using OpenOffice then LibreOffice for around 4-5 years in total. The inability of these products to read .docx correctly, the crashes, the hacked formatting, the disruption caused by all that squabbling when they forked - finally got to me. The last straw was using LibreOffice's Impress for a formal presentation only to find that it had got massively scrambled in being saved, and half the images failed on actually presenting. I am on a Mac by the way, and use Linux off and on at home. However, although not a Microsoft fanboy, I have to say that Office has come a long way since I stopped using it regularly; it's an easy suite of tools to deploy by comparison, at least for me. |
 - Score: 4 |
| 2001 all around |
| By sarobenalt on 2012-09-18 15:39:10 |
| It's not just MS that is stuck in 2001. Many of their large corporate accounts are stuck there as well, so of course they will buy - eventually. |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE[2]: $0 for students and staff |
| By haakin on 2012-09-18 16:11:34 |
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> The last straw was using LibreOffice's Impress for a formal presentation only to find that it had got massively scrambled in being saved, and half the images failed on actually presenting. If you are not going to use your own computer, you need to have your presentation as pdf. Just in case something goes wrong. Likely, it will. I have had similar problems using Powerpoint. The last one, I had a 1-hour presentation and I needed to prepare a shorter version. I just hide 90% of the slides and in my computer those slides weren't shown during the presentation rehearsal. But, they were shown during the presentation in front of the audience. I had a very bad time during those 10 minutes. Some kind of incompatibility between powerpoint versions. |
| - Score: 4 |
| OpenOffice pricing revealed! = $0 |
| By benali72 on 2012-09-18 16:22:47 |
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OpenOffice pricing revealed = $0 New, more competitive Student Edition! = $0 Subscription version! = $0 Home and Business editions! = $0 Installs on up to 5 PCs! = $0 |
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| RE[3]: $0 for students and staff |
| By orfanum on 2012-09-18 18:24:19 |
| Yes, I agree, that's one sensible way to do it. Actually, if truth be told, there's a growing acceptance of not having 'slides' (say the word as though you were pointing out a Marvel comic at a Classics seminar) at all. Analogue all way! |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE[5]: Numbers |
| By PieterGen on 2012-09-18 22:35:18 |
| Thanks for the suggestion, I will look into Wine....(never installed it before) |
| - Score: 1 |
| RE: Once a joke, always a joke. |
| By Mr. Dee on 2012-09-18 23:01:20 |
| For someone who doesn't use Microsoft Office, you sound quite bitter about it. Is that a hint that you wish to still use Microsoft Office? Let me throw you a bone, go to one of the launch events and get a freebie or go to the Microsoft Office Facebook page and like the page. They usually have contest there where they giveaway free copies of Microsoft Office just for answering a question or playing a fun game. I personally won a copy of Microsoft Office Professional 2010 which I still have not used yet. If I could get in touch with you, I probably would give it to you. You sound so bitter and desparate. |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE[3]: Once a joke, always a joke. |
| By Mr. Dee on 2012-09-18 23:05:37 |
| Uh, Microsoft Office Home & Student includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote for $139 which usually what most users need and you can run it forever on up to 3 PC's. What more could you want? Greedy? |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE[5]: Numbers |
| By Phloptical on 2012-09-19 23:16:40 |
| The folks at WINE are doing a bang-up job. The last time I installed it was about 4 or 5 years ago and for running MS Office, it was rock solid. I can only imagine that it's gotten better since then. |
| - Score: 2 |
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